Improvement in harvester-rakes



l be-adapted to l `as hereinafter described.

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3 lrake.

t UNITEDSTATES PATENT GFFICE;

JOIINIa MANNY, OI` ROOKFORD, ILLINOIS.

' lMPROvMENT IN HARVESTER-RAKES.

Specilicationformjng part of Letters Patent No. 112,363, dated March 7, 15571,.`

l To all whom it may cooera:l

Be it Aknown that. I, JOHN P. MANNY, of Rockford, in the 'county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Harvester-Rakes, 'of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to that class of automatic rakes in which a continuously-revolving reel is combined with arake revolving continuously in a uniform path.

Its object is to `turn" and ldeliver the grain atthe side of `the machine Without the use of cams; and to this end-the improvement here in claimed consists ina novel method of combining a reel rotating continuously on` a horizontal axis parallel with the linger-beam with arakerevolving.synchronously with the reel on an `airis intersectingand inclinedacutely tojthat ofthe reel hub fully set forth. y. y y i The accompanying drawing` represents so t, `much only of a harvester as is necessary to y. v illustrate the mechanism constituting the subl ject-matter ofthe invention herein claimed.

In practice my improvement will, of course, the fully-organized harvesters of the `present day, whether front or rear cut,

" i one or two wheeled machines, or having j ointed 4or rigid finger-beams. t

Figure l shows a plan, and Fig. 2 a front elevation, of my improvement; Fig.` 3, av vertical longitudinal sectionthrough the Vreelhub.

To a nger-beam, E, is secured a platform, J, by preference concave, and curved in the form of the segment of the frustum of aicone, and provided with fences qr guards J1 J2. A reel post or standard, K, is mounted on the heel. end ofthe finger-beam. vA stud-axle, lr,

:l projects horizontally from this post, and carries a hub, L, having a gear-wheel, Z, on one be driven by proper gear, r', on the other side, to drive the rake, Reel ribs or beaters N, mounted on arms M, radiating from the hat L, tonstitute the reel.

'I he rake-shaft o extends through the stud 7c and hub L, beinginclinedboth'upward and backward, as shown inthe drawing. A gearon this shaft, meshes with the igear r', above mentioned, and thus rotates the orshaft, as hereinafter to the shaft, as shown in the drawing, and

carries a rake-head, P, on its outer end, as usual.

In operation the reel reels the grain back upon the platform, `from which, when cut, it is removed by the rake, which,'owing to its angular arrangement relative to the lingeri beam and platform, sweeps over them diagohally, drawing the grain toward the stubble side ofthe machine, anddischarging it out of the path of the team on the next round. I thus discharge the cut grain without the use of cams. l

Having described and claimed.4 another method of attaining this result in another application forLetters Patent,flled March 2S, 1870,

of whichthis is a division, I do not, broadly,

claim herein the combination of a rotating reel anda rotatin g rake, but the devices herein claimed constitutean improvement on those shown in that application, being more simple and easier in their application. Moreover, the gear r' in this improvement being concentric with the reel-axis, while the gear o" is concentric with the rake-axis, instead of being leccentric to it, as in the application aforesaid, this rake revolves synchronously with the reel, instead of having the differential movement characteristic of the other rake.

I claim'as my inventionl.. The combination of the reel 'rotating continuously on a horizontal axis with the continuously-rotating rake mounted. on an'aXis intersecting that of the reel, and inclined backward and upward at an angle acute to the finger-beam, these parts being constructed and operating in combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. The vcombination of the horizontal reel hub or shaft, the bevel-gear r', mounted there on and concentric therewith, the rake-shaft, inclined at an anglev acute to the reelshaft, andthe bevel-gear r', mounted on and concentric-with said rake-shaft, all these parts being constructed to operate in combination, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

J OHN P; VMANNY. Witnesses:

WILLIAM C. BLINN, LEwIs WEYBURN. 

